Although it’s clearly a promo for the EasyBib software, this infographic highlights data around levels of student source selection, plagiarism, and citation practice that makes a compelling case for closer connections between librarians and the teaching/learning enterprise.

What a great idea — connecting information literacy to employability, and using student tesimonials of how being information literate makes a difference in their daily working lives. More at http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/infolit

This poster provides food-for-thought for health science librarians who wish to teach deeper information-seeking skills to students who are used to using highly synthesized sources of pre-existing information. Though most useful for medical librarians, the questions posed in the poster are relevant to many disciplines.

These are excellent FREE active-learning seminars. Several are of direct benefit to the work we do in supporting teaching and learning. Those who have attended the workshops find that in addition to adding to their own skill sets, they learn more about the challenges facing course instructors.